04 Aug 2014
Dickie Arbiter’s On Duty With the Queen has reached #22 in the Amazon bestseller list on pre-orders alone. The book is released on October 1st.
03 Aug 2014
Dickie Arbiter’s memoir On Duty with the Queen , published shortly by Blink, is today’s Sunday Mirror front page story. He will be speaking at the Daily Mail literary lunch on 26th September.
03 Aug 2014
Randal Hansen’s Disobeying Hitler is excerpted in the Fall issue of World War II Magazine on sale from July 29.
03 Aug 2014
Caey Watson’s The Girl without a Voice is no 8 in this week’s paperback non-fiction list.
02 Aug 2014
Natacha Tormey’s shocking memoir Born Into the Children of God is continuing to generate lots of media interest, including:
Interview on This Morning (video here, interview starts around 43 minutes in).
Two page spread in New! magazine:
Cover story in Best magazine:
And a BBC Radio interview, online here.
02 Aug 2014
The US paperback edition of Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers has hit the Indie bookshops bestseller list, reaching #12 this week.
02 Aug 2014
There’s a great review for the fascinating A Very Private Diary, edited by Carol Acton, in the Irish Times.
‘Scrupulously edited by Acton, A Very Private Diary conveys a woman’s role in wartime with integrity, humour and pity. As well as being magnificently absorbing, the diary serves as a tonic, so unlike outsized histories of war by academics and others who had not been there.’
02 Aug 2014
Holiday reads: What are Cameron, Miliband, Clegg and Farage packing in their suitcases this summer? Britain’s leaders reveal they plan to devour books about politics, lies, betrayal… and the complexities of the European Union